What is the main treatment for castration of livestock?

The invention of castration played a crucial role in the domestication of animals.

Castration, also known as "deprogramming," is the removal or destruction of an animal's ovaries or testicles. Livestock castration is an operation to remove or destroy an animal's ovaries or testicles. Xia, Shang and Zhou period, the greatest achievements in veterinary medicine than the emergence of castration. Probably the early domestic animals have been domesticated, but still retained some primitive wildness, after castration, the wildness is limited to a certain extent, which is very beneficial to the captive breeding of domestic animals.

Castration in the Han Dynasty has been further developed. Before the Han Dynasty to go with the fire geld method, that is, with a red-hot branding iron to brand off the blood vessels, remove the ku nine. The advantage of this method is to stop bleeding reliably, the disadvantage is to make the organization form burn necrosis, the wound is not easy to heal for a long time, affecting the service. The Han Dynasty saw the emergence of the water geld method, the water geld method is to press the spermatic cord, before and after repeated twisting, on the one hand, compression hemostasis, on the one hand, so that the spermatic cord from the thinnest part of the self-break.

Generally speaking, the de-emasculation is mainly for male livestock, and at present in our country folk popular castration, but also includes small sows ovaries (commonly known as "peach blossom") removal. This castration, surgical simplicity, safety and reliability, has been known for a long time, and according to the research of experts, this technology was first seen in the Shang Dynasty Oracle, so far there have been more than 3,000 years of history.